[WillowTheWhisp]

There's only one person quoting things out context on here as far as I can see.

Maybe it woud help if they undersood that there's a difference between stereotyping and racism.

Stereotyping is where one makes the assumption that all Chinese people own chip shops and all chip shops are owned by Chinese people, or that all Muslims are Asian and (this is a very common one) all Asians are Muslim.

Any sensible person can see that this just isn't true. I know a couple of chippies owned by English people and I know one Chinese guy who is a doctor and another half Chinese guy who works in a factory. I have a Muslim friend who was born in this country of white Anglo Saxon descent and converted when she married a Palesinian. Another Muslim I know is Irish and married to an African (can't just remember the country off-hand). On the other hand I also know Asians who are Hindu and others who are Christian. Now all that took some thinking about because, hey guess what, I don't slot them into categories. They are all just people!

Perhaps Poppy could have accused Silvermain of stereotyping young Asian males because saying that most of the souped up cars are driven by them is more stereotyping than it is racist. It's also more accurate than my comment about Chinese chippies though because most of the souped up cars with noisy boom boxes in the boot do tend to be driven by young Asian males.